Senate Republicans “are turning their attention from repealing to amending the new federal health care reform law, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said Wednesday,” the Kingsport Times-News reports.
“I do think it would be a good idea to give states more flexibility in dealing with this new health care law,” Alexander, the Senate Republican Conference chairman, said before addressing about 90 business leaders at a luncheon held at Sycamore Shoals State Park. “The costs that the new law passes on to Tennessee are massive, and I have a lot more confidence in our governor and our legislature spending the available money wisely than Washington, D.C., spending it.”
Alexander said U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who took the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat in a special election to become the Senate’s 41st Republican, is leading the effort.
Democrats still hold 57 seats in the Senate, but Alexander said now is the time to make changes in the law because most of its provisions don’t take effect until 2014.
Senator Alexander says Republicans “are still advocating their reform ideas of buying insurance across state lines, establishing small business health insurance pools, and enacting malpractice reform.”
He “insisted congressional Democrats and Democratic President Barack Obama might listen to those ideas better after the November elections.”
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Talk about repealing the law is pretty stupid, considering the President would veto the law, should it somehow, against all odds, pass Congress.
How about a constitutional amendment ending our spending insanity? That doesn’t need a Presidential signature.
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